Advantage Quote by Steven Pinker

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”

— Steve Krug

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

— James Frey

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You…

— Lev Grossman

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

— Quentin Crisp

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

— Freya Stark

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic…

— Rob Lowe

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

— Jane Rule

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

— Honore de Balzac

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that…

— George Santayana

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

— George Santayana